Monday, July 30, 2012
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Welcome Party for The Nigerian 2012 Olympic Team
The Welcome Party for The Nigerian 2012 Olympic Team Held in London 8th July 2012. Goodwill messages
WHAT THEY SAID;
Asake Agoro Couture
Creative Director; Asakeogoro Couture
London College Of Fashion
I like these types of events because they honour and raise the profile of Nigerians. Welcoming the Nigerian Olympic team this way is a good thing for their moral.
WHAT THEY SAID;
Creative Director; Asakeogoro Couture
London College Of Fashion
I like these types of events because they honour and raise the profile of Nigerians. Welcoming the Nigerian Olympic team this way is a good thing for their moral.
Obinna Metu; 100m, 200m athlete representing Nigeria in 2012 London Olympics.
I am the fastest man in Nigeria. I feel good and it’s a dream come true to be in London. This is my 2nd Olympic tournament along with 2008. I am not afraid of Usain Bolt the current champion. I was in Jamaica in 2010 to train with the best coach in the world and I trained with him, usain bolt. I believe he’s one of the best and I want to beat him. We were in the same heat in 2008 and I let him get away, I won’t let him this time. Yes Obinna, for all of Nigeria’s sake, we like your promise, we are right behind you.
ENGR SANI NDANUSA; HEAD OF OLYMPIC COMMITTEE; WE CAME TO COMPETE, NOT PARTICIPATE.
The team has been looked after properly and are ready. We came here with 50 athletes because they are the best out of 150million people. London olympics is not a place for testing anybody. We will be within Gold Medal reach in London 2012 and are already planning for Beijing 2016.People think Nigeria is down since the 80s due to our football dominance but we are doing well in other sports like basketball, check it. Nigerians are rowing and we are expanding our sports curriculum back in schools. We have minimised excesses by having a small number of delegates who are all staying in modest hotels. The Nigerian government has not promised anybody anything for winning but the private sectors have. Some have said N2.5m for Gold, N1.5m for silver and so on. The government are giving companies tax breaks so they can support as such. The Jumbo package will come from the government. We are very happy about the support of this event and the Nigerian Athletes are enjoying home advantage, hopefully that will also transpire when the games begin.
WALE OJO; ACTOR NEW NIGERIAN CINEMA;
Young Nigerian athletes by being millions in England make up the backbone of British sport. We should all be proud of Nigeria and show our support for the National team.
INNOCENT EGBONIKE; Head Coach, Nigerian Olympic team 2012. Picture
This Event shows us we have homeboys and homegirls in London. We will not dissapoint. TheNigerian athletes have done well in the African championships and Olympic trials in 2012. Moral is high and we will shine. All we can ask for 1st are your prayers and moral support.Watch the space
MRS FALILAT OGUNKOYA
Bronze Medallist 400m Atlanta 96
Silver medallist 4*4 Atlanta 96
I’ve been in 3 olympics and this is the 1st time the team has been welcomed like this, Its nice to see Nigerians appreciating Nigerians. My advice to the athletes is keep your head up, do your best and make Nigeria proud.
Adebayo Jones
Adebayo Jones, Nigerian King of Couture
This Event Shows we appreciate the Efforts these athletes have made to get here, training hard and qualifying to represent a great nation like Nigeria. We coming out to welcome them this way is the right thing to do.
Monday, July 23, 2012
Written by
Elombah.com
...The
damming emails also reveal the scale of the defence infiltration in the case.
So far DC
John McDonald (45) is the only serving officer who has been arrested and
bailed. DI Walters, Knuckey and Hunter also arrested are all on police bail.
RISC
Management Limited was the private detective agency hired by Speechly Bircham
Solicitors to provide Ibori’s legal team with assistance with the ongoing
police investigations. Documents now show that the private detectives were in
fact working closely with the police helping them build a case against Ibori
and others.
The
sensational emails uncovered reveal the degree of the inappropriate
relationships as between the private detectives and the serving police
officers.
They
conclusively establish that Keith Hunter has lied to British MPs. Having
repeatedly and categorically denied in written statements submitted to
Parliament any communication with the Police by RISC during the Ibori
investigation, these emails irrefutably demonstrate that Hunter has deceived
British Parliament - the very heart of the British integrity.
The following
comments have been extracted from the suppressed emails in which Cliff Knuckey
of RISC Management Limited some of which had been copied to Hunter.
Excerpts
read:-
“I know Gary
Walters and he is “totally out of his depth” in this investigation”
“Knowing Mr
Gardiner [a senior police detective] has an unhealthy habit of being over
economic with innuendo; rumour; and misguided interpretation…. Some of Mr
Ibori’s answers …could be manipulated…”
“I had a
telephone conversation with DCM late last week..”
“I will meet with
DCM next week to find out what is happening”
“DCM and his
colleagues will be on a very large fishing expedition for information..”
“DCM no
longer has the ability to make a decision to charge..”
“I know DCM
is in the UK all next week”
“Peter Clark will
take the lead role in interviewing you with DC Macdonald being present..”
RISC
operatives knew full details on the police investigation. They knew the
whereabouts of the police officers and could contact them at any point in time.
They appear to have been in regular telephone conversations, they knew who the
interviewing officers were how the interviews were going to be conducted - all
matters which the police officers were not authorised to divulge.
One of the
most damming emails reads:
“I have fixed
a meeting with DCM on Monday and will undoubtedly get an understanding of what
the current difficulties are being faced by the police.”
“DCM” is the
same DC [John] McDonald, the lead case officer who initiated the Ibori
investigation in 2005 and has been pursing the case for 7 years.
This email
was sent the day after a RISC operative, Cliff Knuckey had handed over £5,000
to DC McDonald after a 7 hour lavish wining and dining session.
McDonald as a
serving police officer was not authorised nor permitted to divulge details
surrounding police investigations.
The Crown
Prosecution Service prosecuting were under a legal duty to provide the defence
teams with all documents they had, however, according to defence lawyers none
of the emails which contain the highly incriminating evidence of illegal
conduct have ever been provided. These failings may well may amount to further
grounds of gross misconduct and a wider conspiracy to pervert the course of
justice.
New Scotland
Yard is refusing to confirm or deny whether any other officers in its
corruption unit are currently being investigated. Rumours are rife as other
officers; DC Irons and DC Greenwood are believed to have known about the
corrupt payments in May 2008 and are believed to have conspired with McDonald
to suppress the documents or participated.
The
anti-corruption police investigation is being widely and closely watched as
attempts of another Met police “cover up” similar to the original phone hacking
scandal is expected."
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Deportation: 2 Nigerian illegal
immigrants strip naked in protest
| 19/07/2012
By: NNANNA OKERE, Italy
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Two Nigerians illegal immigrants have reportedly stripped themselves naked to protest arrest by the Italian police. The incident occurred recently following threats by the Italian government to deport the two immigrants to Nigeria, after they were allegedly arrested for constituting nuisance in their neighborhood.
The account of the incident by our correspondent said the duo, one Christantus Okonkwo who hails from Orlu in Imo State and John Osagie aka (Papy) from Benin, Edo State, were arrested by the Italian police who found them drunk and disturbing the neighbourhood.
The decision to deport the suspects followed the discovery by the police that they had been living in the country illegally. They were subsequently detained for two days.
Daily Sun gathered that the two men, who were later moved to a deportation camp, staged a protest at the Malpensa International Airport Milan by stripping naked to attract the sympathy of the immigration officials to rescind the decision to deport them.
Although their protest fell on the deaf ears of the immigration officials and almost met a brickwall but for the intervention of a fellow Nigerian said to be married to an Italian lady who was touched by the protest.
Eyewitnesses said the timely intervention of the man whose name was not mentioned saved the situation, as he was quick to contact a lawyer.
As at the time of filing this report both Okonkwo and Osagie had been moved to a refugee camp pending the outcome of their petition by their lawyer over their deportation matters.
It was gathered that Okonkwo had lived in Europe for 12 years without a residence permit, while John Osagie who entered the country illegally from Libya to seek political asylum, which the Italian government denied him chose to remain there for the past 2 years.
When arrested, Osagie it was reported could not present proof of a political asylum status.
Chris Okonkwo who came into Europe since 2000 said he lived in France for 4 years where he sought political asylum and was denied for no evidence.
After four years in France, he moved to the Netherlands where he stayed for one year before moving into Italy in 2005 and had been living there for the past seven years. Due to frustration, Chris has turned himself into a drunk which made the Italian police to marked him as an insane person,",a witness said.
When asked why he went naked at the Airport, Chris said " having spent 12 years in Europe as a whole without achieving anything how can I go back to Nigeria empty handed. I have no papers, no job, no wife and children, no house of my own both in Nigerian and in Europe. I have not achieved anything in Nigeria. I don't want to go back to Nigeria to face the shame."
He however, appealed to the Italian and Nigerian governments to intervene in his case.
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Two Nigerians illegal immigrants have reportedly stripped themselves naked to protest arrest by the Italian police. The incident occurred recently following threats by the Italian government to deport the two immigrants to Nigeria, after they were allegedly arrested for constituting nuisance in their neighborhood.
The account of the incident by our correspondent said the duo, one Christantus Okonkwo who hails from Orlu in Imo State and John Osagie aka (Papy) from Benin, Edo State, were arrested by the Italian police who found them drunk and disturbing the neighbourhood.
The decision to deport the suspects followed the discovery by the police that they had been living in the country illegally. They were subsequently detained for two days.
Daily Sun gathered that the two men, who were later moved to a deportation camp, staged a protest at the Malpensa International Airport Milan by stripping naked to attract the sympathy of the immigration officials to rescind the decision to deport them.
Although their protest fell on the deaf ears of the immigration officials and almost met a brickwall but for the intervention of a fellow Nigerian said to be married to an Italian lady who was touched by the protest.
Eyewitnesses said the timely intervention of the man whose name was not mentioned saved the situation, as he was quick to contact a lawyer.
As at the time of filing this report both Okonkwo and Osagie had been moved to a refugee camp pending the outcome of their petition by their lawyer over their deportation matters.
It was gathered that Okonkwo had lived in Europe for 12 years without a residence permit, while John Osagie who entered the country illegally from Libya to seek political asylum, which the Italian government denied him chose to remain there for the past 2 years.
When arrested, Osagie it was reported could not present proof of a political asylum status.
Chris Okonkwo who came into Europe since 2000 said he lived in France for 4 years where he sought political asylum and was denied for no evidence.
After four years in France, he moved to the Netherlands where he stayed for one year before moving into Italy in 2005 and had been living there for the past seven years. Due to frustration, Chris has turned himself into a drunk which made the Italian police to marked him as an insane person,",a witness said.
When asked why he went naked at the Airport, Chris said " having spent 12 years in Europe as a whole without achieving anything how can I go back to Nigeria empty handed. I have no papers, no job, no wife and children, no house of my own both in Nigerian and in Europe. I have not achieved anything in Nigeria. I don't want to go back to Nigeria to face the shame."
He however, appealed to the Italian and Nigerian governments to intervene in his case.
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Shocking: A Nigerian In Austria Brutalised By The Police, Now On Crutch. To Lose His €80,000 Flats and His €73.360 Cash To His Bank
"One of my lawyers threatened me that I would see because here is Austria "
"My current lawyer called me a slave and deceptively offered to buy my flats"
"My two life insurances and bank account were closed without my consent"
"The accident I had was turned against me that I wanted to commit suicide and when I told my lawyer to appeal she said that the decision was final"
"The money my company paid me through my former lawyer for wrongful dismissal after my accident he refused to pay it to me"
"Please help I am losing all I laboured in life"
My heart bleeds and I am in heavy pains. It is so, so sad and unfortunate to see my fellow black man and a Nigerian in the state I saw Nosa Igbinoba toddled like a child as his waist trembled to dance while he moved his legs with extreme difficulty and painfully struggled to support himself with a crutch. As we walked, we stopped intermittently for a rest as he interwove his crutch from right to left and without minding who was watching us on the street his tears rolled uncontrollably as he narrated the good, the bad and the ugly side of his life story in Austria . I fought back to hold my own tears to avoid breaking him down the more, tried as much as I did, but nature still took its course and failed me at the end of our approximately 100 metres walk that took us more than 28 minutes.
"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest." - Elie Wiesel. Please take your time to read through the unbelievable story of Nosa.
You can reach Nosa Igbinoba on:
Phone +436645495714
Mail: nosaigbinoba317@yahoo.com
Uzoma Ahamefule
A concerned patriotic citizen writes from Vienna , Austria
Mail: uzomaah@yahoo.com
Nigeria signs $1.49 bln railway deal with China
Reuters) - Nigeria's government said on Wednesday it had signed a $1.49 billion contract with state-owned China Civil Engineering Construction Corp (CCECC) to build a railway between the commercial capital Lagos and Ibadan. Lagos, the heartbeat of
Africa's second largest economy, is around 130 km south of Ibadan, Nigeria's third largest city and a transit point between the coast and the north.
"(Cabinet) today approved the award of the Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge railway double track contract to CCECC in the sum of $1.487 billion ... with a completion period of 36 months," Minister of Transport Idris Umar told reporters.
Nigeria in World Book Capital bid
Oxford loses out to Port-harcourt Nigeria in World Book Capital bid
OXFORD has missed out on becoming Unesco World Book Capital, it was confirmed yesterday. The city was bidding to win the title for 2014 but it has instead gone to Port Harcourt in Nigeria. Oxford’s bid, one of 11 worldwide, was co-ordinated by Oxford Inspires and a steering committee made up of local organisations.
Oxford Inspires chairman Tony Stratton said: “While we are sad our bid was unsuccessful, it has been a catalyst for raising awareness of national literacy challenges and for putting real commitment and energy behind working for change. Nothing of this work will be wasted.”
Oxford’s bid had an Imagination Unbound theme, celebrating books’ power to inspire and unlock imaginations.
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